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When Alzheimer's Hits at 40

Early-Onset Sufferers Juggle Children, Job and Dementia

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Shirley S. Wang

Updated Nov. 14, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

Brian Kammerer, the 45-year-old chief financial officer of a small hedge fund, called his wife one day from a cellphone in the men's room of his Manhattan office building. A colleague had just asked him for something, he whispered, but he had no idea what it was.

"It clicks and it holds papers together," he said.

"A stapler?"...

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